How To Use The Data Behind Facebook Status Updates
The more that we look into these status updates themselves, the more that we can learn about generations and society as a whole. We can start to pick apart the different actions that people take and the social trends that are influencing what we talk about, what we purchase, and what we think.

Seeking Out Sources, Made Transparent on TwitterTwitter has proven its usefulness to the media in breaking news as a real-time search tool, an instantaneous publisher, and a source discovery service. It’s that last point that is often of most use — and interest — to reporters on Twitter, finding and talking to people who could be useful in a story.